🔴 LIVE - Father Fish Is Out In The Field

We're live, and we're out in the field. I can read this. I can't read it. All right. I'm not going to be able to read much on the screen. I'm on my phone. I can't even tell if there's anybody here. We're out in the field collecting. I can't tell whether anybody's here. I guess I'll wait a few minutes. We got two, three. We got some people there. I can't read your names, so I'm not going to be able to say hello uh four or five east of Lavelle uh Fort Myers now what I want to do is I'm going to show you where we are we're at a uh a little canal where we were a week ago that's Frank over there he's collecting last week we were here and we caught Elisoma. I thought it was Everglade. I do not believe it is. I believe it's Okefenokee. And I'm going to show you how we do this. I'm barefooted so I'm walking a little awkwardly. Okay. And I walk awkward anyway. Frank's going to come over and film. So he's going to show me catching this stuff. This is right on the highway on Route 29. coming out of LaBelle. We are southbound out of LaBelle headed toward the Everglades and we found this spot after looking at dozens and discovered Elasmobranch here which is a little fish I've been struggling to find for the last couple of years. We've been here about 20 minutes and have caught probably 10 to 15 so i want to give you uh an idea of how we catch them these fish are in an inch or less of water so it's it's a kind of a unique technique for collecting them you can see the net frank has i have one just like it and we're gonna give you an idea of how this works here it comes okay i think yeah this is mostly working if you simply hold it like this yeah you'll have me i'm looking at you right now you are yeah so if you turn this turn it toward me oh nice aren't they are so pretty aren't they what you got oh is it dead oh it's alive what is it water snake yeah no roadie i don't know what type it's probably a banded it looks like a Looks like a banded. Yeah. Yeah, I would say it's a banded. Yeah, it's a banded. It's hard to tell on their time. For sure. Yeah, nice. Definitely looks like it. Nice. All right, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna work this area here. I'm gonna go down there. You letting them go? Yeah. I'm gonna go down there and work that like 10-foot area. That's okay. I've already done that. Okay. I'm gonna go out in the water and do it. My buckets are already there. Remember, there's gators. Yeah, I know. Okay, with all those... Oh, that's people communicating with you. Yeah, right. Okay, I got you. Yeah, you can almost breathe. Well, how many do you think you have, Lou? I've got five or six. I've got nine of them, believe it or not. Yeah. I got five in one scoop, though. I'm over it, but I've got to work for it. Okay, very good. Definitely a father fish in his native environment. I am. I'm hoping not to step on a piece of glass, because I don't have my boots on, or hoodies. Alright, here's the principle, guys. You get this up as close to shore as possible. Want me to stomp? Look down here, see this? I'll stomp it for you if you want. Don't stomp it, just let it keep going. No, stomp it. I meant stomp the ground there. Oh, yes, stomp it. You want me to? Okay. Yep, okay. Okay Yeah, little Molly And a walking cat is that a walking cat yeah that thing will stick you like crazy. I think that's what it is You gotta throw one sure let him walk back in I know he will poke the living dog out of you be careful Turn them over. I want to see if we got anything in here first No, another phormosa, a couple phormosas. Yeah, these are phormosa, this is a little tiny live and I am keeping them because they're just such a neat little fish. Those are females. The male, this is a male. The male is substantially smaller. That might be a female, yeah. Hard to say. Yeah. I think that's a walking cat, though. I stepped on one once and... Well, wait a minute now. I don't... Yeah, it is. It's not a tomthumb, is it? I don't know, actually. Oh, he's loose. Yeah, he's loose now. I thought it was a walker, but... I don't know that fin. I don't know anything about the fins. All right, let's try that dorsal one, what we're doing is scaring them out there, up in very shallow water, we're scaring them out into the net is the principle and so far we're not doing a thing that is it for most, yeah that's it for most of them, let's try one more and then we'll just go back over there where I know there are some try right here, this looks yeah okay, oh come on come towards me, you can, it drops off off the rocks right here, yeah I got it, okay a lot of little stuff, what are we looking at, shrimp and then gambusia, do not see one, no gambusia I don't see a couple little fromosa, yes, oh well all right, let's go back over here, yeah these are the rocks here, I think it's too steep of a drop off, see though it goes from right here to right there it goes down there, I know that you like this the shallow, you're the one that showed me the shallow works better, no I was catching them all the way back to here, I was catching them all the way back towards this, right this, oh I see, yeah you've been here, yeah I've been all through there I was catching every place that I went back to, I was catching them, want me to get them, let's do this first. I've been here but that doesn't mean I got everything. Oh no. Come on little fellas. Pretty, pretty blue. Yeah a little blue. That's funny. I've been getting right along every every dip I've gotten at least one until I started with all these guys watching and now I'm getting nothing. Well to be fair this is an area where these are all water beetles crawling around in here it's loaded with water beetles yeah it is i don't see sometimes they won't hop yeah i know they're just laid there yeah i thought i only had one when i had the five yeah and the other ones just sat just like you just said up in here and then the uh in the uh roots there's no water right here yeah let me get it oh you're going way back there yeah i'm trying to get out yeah normally you can spot them right away they're very distinctive tiny but distinctive all right lou too much of a wall huh okay there got one okay can you focus in on them um there's a lot of glare hold on um i'm sure i'm looking there he is i'm sure you're looking at him he's in the shadow get him in the light okay that's a male and it looks like he's got bands the the male everglade eye is black with tiny blue spots this is more brown with a pattern which is the uh Oka Funoki so that's what it is where's my bucket over here yep never never seen a man get so excited about a or a brag about a fish they didn't have to lie about okay it's only three quarters of an inch long okay i've got a lot more water in there than i need we flip this back and i'm gonna go back to the van grab and we'll chat a little bit if i get in the van where it's a little darker what huh hold on one molly and one blue fan and the rest are Oh yeah look at that. He's got a bunch of them in there. Very nice. Yeah we got about 15 so far.